Don't Quit!

It is almost a year since I joined Arbonne and the past 11 months has certainly given me experiences from one end of the scale to the other. I have had some incredible high moments, light bulb moments and great fun, also had some very dark moments and days that I just wanted to quit! But I didn't quit!

I am still at the beginning of my journey and I know there are going to be so many more highs and light bulb moments and equally, just as important, the not so good times. But why are the not so good time equally as important as the great times? Because it's through the tough times you get to see what you are truly capable of!

When I joined Arbonne, I signed up two Independent Consultants in the first few weeks, which was good, and we were all off to the flying start, but I was most definitely was not a leader! I steamed ahead, then burned out! I take on full responsibility for not being the leader I needed to be.

Since then, I have gone on a journey and gained experiences which puts me in a much better position to be the leader, coach, mentor, friend, sponsor that I need to be. I still have so much to learn, and the beauty is, you never stop learning.

It gets said so many times, don't quit, keep going! But it is so bloody hard though! When you have had so many people be negative, say no, let you down, when personal circumstances feel too big to cope with, it is so much easier to just quit! I mean, come on, who the heck has the strength to keep getting back up again just to be knocked back down? Do you want to know the answer that? YOU! You have the strength! Each time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

Think of it this way. You have zero fitness level, and decide you are going to see what this gym lark is all about. You go for your induction, get shown how the equipment works for a couple of minutes on each machine. You leave there feeling great, you have joined something great, the system is so easy to follow, get on a machine, do your thing and get fit... How hard can it be?

You go back for your first proper session and you put in some serious work, you ache like hell, you sweated buckets, you feel amazing... You get on the scales and.... WHAT?!! I have lost NOTHING?! Are you freaking kidding me! You go back again, work even harder, ache more, sweat more... Still, nothing to show but the fact you can't sit on the loo without having to lower yourself down! Oh my lord... the pain!

You go a few more times, working hard, aching, sweating busting the gut that just won't shift! Eventually you see a teeny tiny result... You lost 1lb! Yep a whole bloody 1lb... all this work for a flipping lb! You are feeling fed up, drained physically and emotionally. You can't do this, no matter how hard you're working nothing is happening. At this point you have a decision to make....

Quit, that's it, I give up. Go back to the couch dunking the kids chocolate coins they got for Christmas in to lemon flavoured yoghurt... erm, yes, I have done this, was quite nice actually!

Or, pick yourself  up, and carry on! Focusing on your goal, keeping hold of that feeling in the pit of your stomach, THIS WILL WORK! You keep going, keep seating, keep aching, keep working. Then someone comments on how well you look, then the next person and the next person. All of a sudden people are seeing the difference in you.  All your work is now paying off,  you are much fitter than you was, you are stronger, healthier, leaner. Everything you did had an effect. You might not have seen it at first, but it was doing something. And because you didn't quit, you are now seeing the results!

DON'T QUIT! The work  you are doing now is having an effect, you might not see it right now, but it is. I am now starting to see results of my hard work, I could have quit easily, but that would have been the easy option. I owed it to myself not to quit, to not throw it all away.

I now have a lovely new consultant, and I am ready to be the leader for her that I need to be. I am still learning, and growing, but one thing is for sure. No matter how hard this gets, I am here to stay! I absolutely will be an ENVP, I will inspire people to dream, I will help them reach their dreams. This business is a gift, you owe it to yourself not to quit, you owe it to the people who you are yet to meet, you owe it to the people you are going to inspire.

DON'T QUIT!